Poll: Majority Have an Unfavorable View of Critical Race Theory

After taking office, he quickly signed an executive order to rid schools of CRT.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) also took action against CRT in his state last month, signing legislation that provides “substantive protections for both students and parents to ensure that the education they’re receiving in Florida is consistent with the standards of the state of Florida.” He elaborated:Those standards do not allow “pernicious ideologies like Critical Race Theory to be taught in our K-12 schools,” the governor said, promising that tax dollars will not be used to teach children to hate the United States.Every student counts, DeSantis continued, making it clear that the state is not interested in categorizing individuals based on race.“We are not going to tell some kindergartner that they’re an oppressor based on their race,” he said, adding that they are also not going to teach children that they are oppressed based on their race, either.“We are not going — we’re going to make sure a person’s moral character or status as either privileged or oppressed isn’t necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex,” the governor said at the time.